Conjugated conducting polymers

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Page 107On the other hand, for polymers in the solid state even a weak inter-chain
coupling is sufficient to sustain the long-range order up to a critical temperature
which is not much smaller than the mean-field expression Tc = 0.567 A0/kB «
5000 K.

Page 108Given their topological nature, individual solitons cannot hop to adjacent chains,
and joint hopping is a process with very small probability. For polarons, the inter-chain hopping amplitude appears to be about an order of magnitude smaller ...

Page 146Since the inter-chain energy increases with separation of the charges in the
bipolaron, the maximum distance between the kink and antikink should be limited
to values below 50 lattice constants. These three-dimensional interactions cause
a ...